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Owners sought for dumped trophy haul A BENT and twisted aircraft propeller, road signs, signs advertising dog grooming, a restaurant, beer and a letterbox for house number 833, were among items left neatly arranged in a Hastings car park. Senior Constable Mel Chance spotted the items “proudly lined up” near about half a dozen shopping trolleys near the Hastings boar ramp on Tuesday, 26 April. A bundle of the day’s Herald-Sun and a trolley were also included in the assortment of goods which could easily have been the types of things sold at a garage sale. A small, worn tyre may be linked to the aircraft propeller and police are yet to track down the owner of the Lynette’s Restaurant sign. Anyone who can identify the goods should call Hastings police on 5970 7800. Car park haul: Senior Constable Mel Chance with items she believes were dumped near the Hastings boat ramp between 2am and 5am on Tuesday.
Shock over ambo delay By Keith Platt THE Health Department is investigating why an ambulance took more than 25 minutes to reach Balnarring. The alarm was sounded when an 82-year-old man collapsed onto the footpath outside a restaurant. The man had earlier been inside celebrating his birthday with friends and relatives. It is understood the man was dead when the ambulance arrived. Bittern man Chris Twikler was quick to act when he saw the man fall to the
ground on Thursday 7 April. He tried to resuscitate the man using what CPR techniques he had picked up over the years, but his efforts were in vain – the man died before paramedics arrived. Mr Twikler had seen the man earlier in the night inside the Chinese restaurant where they had both been eating. However, minutes after leaving the restaurant the man sank to the ground, obviously ill. “I had just finished paying the bill when someone yelled out. I went outside and tried for about eight minutes
to revive him, but it wasn’t any good,” Mr Twikler said. Upset that a man had “died in the gutter”, Mr Twikler left the scene after about 20 minutes and before the ambulance arrived at about 8.30pm. He contacted Hastings MP Neale Burgess the following day to say how disgusted he was at the time taken for paramedics to arrive. Mr Twikler’s anger is now also being directed at Mr Burgess who, he says, has failed to provide any explanation. “It’s not good enough. I’ve waited
but haven’t heard a thing. “I voted for him. They want your vote but once they get in don’t want to know about you.” Mr Burgess says he too was “shocked” by how long it had taken for the ambulance to respond. “It is unacceptable. You never know if a life could have been saved.” Mr Burgess emailed Health Minister David Davis the same day that he was contacted by Mr Twikler, but had not received a reply when contacted by The News on Wednesday 27 April.
Mr Burgess said this was the latest of two or three late arrivals by ambulances. “This is not the only one that has occurred. Normally, the ambulances down here are fantastic.” The following day, Thursday 28 April Mr Burgess’s office issued the following statement: “Representations have been made to the Minister’s office seeking an investigation of this issue and that investigation is still ongoing. A detailed response will be provided as soon as possible.”
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